Sentences with phrase «produce economic value»

Unfortunately, human capital and its ability to produce economic value can be extremely hard to measure.

Winner take all economies divert effort of highly able people from producing economic value that increases the size of the pie for everyone, to «rent seeking» which decides who gets the existing bounty without contributing to the total amount of wealth in the economy.

Not exact matches

High profits may be justified if novel products offer significant benefits to patients (thus producing indirect economic value through the patients» restored health) or if they represent significant pharmacologic advances over their predecessors — offering new mechanisms of actions and emblematic of high - risk research.

I'm not sure what it means to «serve Marx,» but if what you mean by that is «understand the inherent weaknesses of unfettered capitalism in economic terms and not be surprised when economies come violently crashing to a halt when capital and risk is valued too highly relative to labor and thus produces an unsustainable state of economic affairs,» then yes — in that case a Christian can certainly «serve Marx.»

Pro * Act produce category cost management through commodity contract pricing, in house consultation services and integrated produce program distribution management which brings optimal economic value and food safety to our customers and sets new standards in the produce industry every day.

What we call «fair food» is food that is produced in ways that are fair to all and that guarantee economic and nutritional health to everyone in Australia's food value chain — Australian farmers, Australian food processors, small to medium size food retailers and we who eat the products of these producers and enterprises.

IRRI develops ways to add economic, nutritional, and environmental value to rice by reducing postharvest losses, improving grain quality of new rice varieties, improving value - chain linkages, investigating uses of husks and straw to produce bioenergy, cut carbon emissions, and increase carbon sequestration.

Food loss is «decrease in quantity or quality of food» reflected in nutritional value, economic value or food safety of all food produced for human consumption but not eaten by humans (FAO, 2014).

«The Value of Volunteering» was funded and produced by the Economic and Social Research Council in partnership with the Third Sector European Network (TSEN) and Community Service Volunteers (CSV).

If the services provided by nature for human well - being can be substituted for well with human - produced goods and services, then the economic value of nature for a society is higher, the more equally incomes are distributed within it.

Economic growth is the increase in the market value of the goods and services produced by an economy over time.

We'll reduce it 40 percent by 2020, by 2020 everything we make we'll use 40 percent less energy per dollar or per yuan of value, okay; which is good, I mean, there's no argument to be made against them doing it, but their own economic projections indicate that their economy is going to grow so quickly that they'll be producing more CO2 instead of less at the end of that period.

Multiple quality - improvement programs have been found to produce improvements similar to those generated by the Health Disparities Collaboratives» diabetes program, Huang said, but «the economic value of these programs is generally unknown.»

According to a new report, committing to a food waste reduction plan could produce $ 100 billion in economic value over 10 years.

And the pedagogy that promotes these values and produces this subject is authoritarian and ruthless in its production of savage economic relations, a culture of cruelty, and its deformation of democratic social bonds.

Included in the PowerPoint: a) Scarcity, Choice and Opportunity Cost - The Fundamental Economic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past examEconomic Problem - The Meaning of Scarcity and the inevitability of choices at all levels (individual, firms, govt)- The basic questions of what will be produced ow and for whom - The Meaning of the term «Ceteris Paribus» - The Margin and Decision Making at the Margin - Sort run, long run, very long run b) Positive and Normative Statements - the distinction between fact and value judgements c) Factors of Production - the rewards to the factors of production: land, labour, capital and enterprise - Specialization and division of labour d) Resource Allocation in Different Economic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past examEconomic Systems and Issues of Transition - decision making in market, planned and mixed economies - the role of the factor enterprise in a modern economy e) Production Possibility Curves - shape and shifts of the curve - constant and increasing opportunity costs f) Money - functions and characteristics in a modern economy - barter, cash and bank deposits, cheques, near money, liquidity g) Classification of Goods and Services - free goods, private goods (economic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exameconomic goods) and public goods - merit goods and demerit goods as the outcome of imperfect information by consumers PowerPoint Also Includes: - Key Terms for each Chapter - Activities - Multiple Choice and Essay questions from past exam papers.

As per the American Statistical Association's (ASA) recently released «Statement on P - Values,» statistical significance «is not equivalent to scientific, human, or economic significance... Any effect, no matter how tiny, can produce a small p - value [i.e., «statistical significance»] if the sample size or measurement precision is high enough» (p. 10); hence, one must always check for practical significance when making claims about statistical significance, like Kane et al. actually do here, but do here in a similar inflated vein.

As long as we reform our schools with unquestioned adherence to purely economic values, we may unintentionally ignore our impact on the skills and understanding that produce a just and equitable society in terms of class and race.

In cost - benefit analyses we assign economic values to the outcomes produced by a program.

It advocates that the decline in value instantaneously encouraged acquisitions of agricultural apparatuses and additional principal supplies by producing opportunities of prospects in currency inflation, and economic progress.

HFT is often bandied about in the media as a greedy activity that produces no real economic value.

Not only do you buy something with the potential to increase in value through capital gains, you also receive cash flow during the time you own it... and ON TOP OF THAT high quality companies that produce products people need in any economic environment have the ability to use their pricing power to raise the prices on the products they sell, thereby cushioning you during inflation.

These are the companies within the prepared pet food industry, which devise, produce and market through efficient distribution networks food for the small pets, which have such a major economic, cultural and social value.

Each drawing, produced through the use of machinery, acts as a discrete symbol for artistic, economic, or social principals that, when viewed as a group, addresses contemporary narratives of personal anxiety, globalism versus nativism, and the perception of value, especially that of fine art.

The salmon in all three major rivers that would be affected by the mine produce $ 300 million in economic value annually.

Within this context, the company strives to produce a reliable and quality product that society values, and to deliver long - term economic value to capital providers while meeting stakeholders» expectations on social and environmental responsibility.

Despite recognising that lower demand would potentially lead to lower prices and that some projects would likely not be economic in a 2 °C scenario, Exxon does not provide a meaningful economic assessment of the potential value impact to their producing reserves and resource base in its 2 °C scenario.

In addition to saving lives, solar is producing electricity, which has economic value,» said Joshua Pearce, professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Michigan Technological University.

BTW much of the AGW position does not reduce the use of hydrocarbons in the slightest when you consider all of the energy costs involved from cradle to grave and the economic value of the energy produced.

The scale of that economic devastation is hard to comprehend, but you can start by imagining what the world would look like today with an economy half as big, which would produce only half as much value, generating only half as much to offer the workers of the world.

Building firm - specific assets is about creating «a resource that will produce its highest economic value only within the specific firm,» Prof. William Henderson wrote last year.

The actuarial multiplier contained in the report of the defendant's economic expert, Mr. Szekely, produces a present value of $ 508,000.

They will only run software which produces blocks that are accepted by a majority of the economic nodes in Bitcoin, who in turn will only upgrade their software if the change supports the long - term value of Bitcoin and / or is acceptable to most of their bitcoin - holding customers.

One wonders where the tipping point resides regarding the scenario whereby less people will be needed to produce outcomes / services / products, where less people will have jobs of intrinsic value, not to mention economic value, that will pay enough for one to actually be able to afford the technologically produced outcomes / services / products.

It is disdainful that government repeatedly gives lip service to the notion that «information» is the vital core of our economic future while a renegade branch of same discredits any such value by forcing industries to give it away free with no regard for the time, effort, knowledge and expense those who produce the information have invested.